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Dark Dunes

Can photography conceal the real world? Rein Jelle Terpstra asked himself this question when he stumbled upon an old collection of negatives featuring landscapes, tulips, country lanes and Dutch skies. At first glance, they are photogenic compositions like the ones we see in paintings, but the date and place which the anonymous amateur photographer carefully noted in the margins of each...

Judith Joy Ross

Portraits of America 26 November 2022 - 26 March 2023 This autumn, Fotomuseum Den Haag presents the largest survey to date of Judith Joy Ross (born 1946), regarded as one of the greatest portrait photographers in America. The exhibition features a selection of more than 150 prints, drawn from the photographer’s archive of work over the past fifty years. Ross’s portraits are characterised by soft...

Guided Tour - School

See the exhibition School in a different way and learn more about the photographs on a guided tour. An experienced tour guide can provide you with even more interesting information and tell anecdotes about the exhibitions. Costs €90 an hour (without admission charges; max. 15 people) How to book a guided tour We recommend that you request a tour at least three weeks in advance via the button at...

Arko Datto

Kings of a Bereft Land 14 Jan - 21 May 2023 As a resident of Kolkata, Indian photographer Arko Datto feels the threat of climate change every day. In the nearby Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta, the ground is literally disappearing beneath the inhabitants’ feet. Their houses are being carried away by the sea, which is claiming more and more land. In his series Where Do We Go When the Final Wave...

Strike a Pose

Mondrian and Photography 14 Jan - 21 May 2023 Piet Mondrian was keenly aware that photography is a powerful means of presenting yourself. It is striking that, in the numerous professional photographs taken of him throughout his career, he always seems to be posing. For example, he was once photographed in his studio in Amsterdam in a pensive pose, sitting on his bed, reading a book. In this...

Mondrian and Photography

Piet Mondrian was aware from the outset that photography is a powerful means of representing yourself. Throughout his career, ‘the father of abstraction’ regularly had himself photographed in his studio as an intellectual loner. The fact that Mondrian also had a much more laid-back and more social side is evident from snapshots of his private life that have emerged through research into the artist...

Fault Line

Over the next few years, Hague-based photographers Jakob Ganslmeier (Germany, 1990) and Ana Zibelnik (SIovenia, 1995) will be working on Fault Line, a project about the impact of the climate crisis on Southern Europe. In the first part of the project shown here, the photographers focus on climate anxiety. This psychological phenomenon is especially prevalent among young people, who are...

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Accessibility

The Museum of Photography is keen that everyone should feel welcome on its premises. Unfortunately, however, we do not have good disabled access throughout the building. Travelling to the museum Public transport Fotomuseum Den Haag is on the route of tram 17 and bus 24. The distance from the tram stop to the main entrance is approximately 50 metres. Bus 24 does have disabled access. Mobility...

Skin Ego

In Laura Hospes’s first solo museum exhibition, we can almost touch her skin. In her work, Hospes (NL, 1994) painstakingly explores her complicated relationship with her own body. She visually dissects it in her photographs, videos, installations and performances, ruthlessly capturing every detail. She sculpts and manipulates her body by assuming contorted postures and by applying materials such...